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You guys went on Fox the other day with the Doge team. Big Balls. Big Balls was there. All of those guys were like 12
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years old. What is it about the role, the opportunity, the way it was presented that attracted this group of
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what were incredibly wellspoken, highly intelligent, clearly extraordinarily motivated individuals. Where do these
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guys come from? The young people you saw at the table are extraordinary. They're
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10x engineers. We would all be thrilled to have our companies. Elon obviously is
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extraordinary leaders. So they come for him, but I think they're really motivated by the mission. All of us have
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known Elon for a really long time. I also worked for another person that's of that same stature for a long time. A
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very good friend of his came to see me recently for lunch and he asked me this exact same question about Elon. That's
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the question that they were grappling with. How is he able to find big balls and so many big balls? I actually can
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tell you I've seen him find big balls. He responds to emails or tweets. people will say like, "I have a solution to
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this." And then I've been CCed on messages where he sends them to the right person. He has people to vet them
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and see if this idea actually works. And I think he's like very opportunistic and
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doesn't prejudge where you went to school and what your credentials are. There's a lot of people that can be
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responsive in email. I think there's a handful of people that are real northern stars for technical talent, but he's the
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only one that when you walk in the room, he says, "Here's this mission." And it is so generally otherworldly. Nobody
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else can really say that it is a flywheel as you said that is extremely unique.